Quotes About Temperance

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.

Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

Avoid running at all times.

Nos permitíamos el lujo de no querer comer

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. Above

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

As a general rule, it is highly desirable that ladies should keep their temper: a woman when she storms always makes herself ugly, and usually ridiculous also. There is nothing so odious to man as a virago. Though Theseus loved an Amazon, he showed his love but roughly, and from the time of Theseus downward, no man ever wished to have his wife remarkable rather for forward prowess than retiring gentleness. A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

To get angry is easy, to get angry with the right person, the right moment and for the right reason is difficult.

La excelencia moral es resultado del hábito. Nos volvemos justos realizando actos de justicia; templados, realizando actos de templanza; valientes, realizando actos de valentía.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.

The man who shuns and fears everything and stands up to nothing becomes a coward; the man who is afraid of nothing at all, but marches up to every danger becomes foolhardy. Similarly the man who indulges in pleasure and refrains from none becomes licentious (akolastos); but if a man behaves like a boor (agroikos) and turns his back on every pleasure, he is a case of insensibility. Thus temperance and courage are destroyed by excess and deficiency and preserved by the mean.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.

Moderation in all things

By the mean of the thing I denote a point equally distant from either extreme, which is one and the same for everybody; by the mean relative to us, that amount which is neither too much nor too little, and this is not one and the same for everybody.

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

But in all cases we must guard most carefully against what is pleasant, and pleasure itself, because we are not impartial judges of it.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.